In a recent article, Bloomberg profiled Shanghai Sunway Biotech Co., detailing the career path of its founder, Dr. Hu Fang. The article uses the highly picturesque image of Hu’s career beginnings as a “barefoot doctor,” ordered at age 19 to the provinces to tend the rural population during the Great Leap Forward of the 1960s, sent without the benefit of medicines or instruments. Now, his career having advanced greatly, Hu heads a leading edge biotech company, one that has brought gene therapy to cancer drugs. Hu’s remarkable story serves as an apt illustration of the astonishing Great Leap Forward of China biotech in the last 15-20 years. More details...

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